Kale Chips – What Doesn’t Kale You Makes You Stronger

Delicious and crunchy cheesy kale chips that everyone will love snacking on. These veggie powerhouse cheesy kale chips will make you a kale lover too.

Troy is responsible for this post’s awesome title. This is the same man who came up with “yesterday was waffle, but today will be butter” for my whole wheat waffles post. He’s taken, ladies. Don’t.Even.Try.

So, let’s talk dark leafy greens. Such a sexy topic. They’re good for you. Full of awesome vitamins and minerals. Some of the best foods you can put in your body.

Me? I don’t always care for them.

I know they’re good for me. I know they contain healthy stuff that can only be found in these specific plants.

I still don’t love them.

But kale chips? I’ll eat the crap out of some kale chips. As in like 10 servings of kale in one sitting. Kale chips are one of the tastiest ways to get leafy greens in your diet. I use nutritional yeast in this recipe to make them taste like white cheddar, but it is totally optional. Nutritional yeast is loaded with vitamin B, protein, fiber, and folic acid. It is a very delicious and healthy addition to most diets.

Delicious and crunchy cheesy kale chips that everyone will love snacking on. These veggie powerhouse cheesy kale chips will make you a kale lover too.

Course:
Snack

Servings: 4

Author: Sarah - Sustainable Cooks

Ingredients

1bunch kale

1tsp garlic salt

1tbspolive oil

2tsp nutritional yeast POWDER

Instructions

Cut the kale off of the ribs, and then into large pieces. Place the pieces in a salad spinner. Rinse with cold water and then spin multiple times to remove excess water. Place on a clean towel and allow to air dry for a bit.

Preheat oven to 275 degrees.

Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper, and place your kale on the parchment. Spritz with olive oil from a Misto, or drizzle 1 tbsp over the kale. Sprinkle with garlic salt and nutritional yeast powder. Using your hands, massage the kale a bit to make sure the oil and seasoning are distributed.

Bake until crispy, stirring every 10 minutes. I typically bake mine for 10 minutes, then stir and check. Bake 10 more minutes, and stir and check. Then bake for another 4-5 minutes. When they are getting close to being done, you'll hear the kale chips start to make scratching sounds across the parchment when stirred.

Place a paper towel or small piece of newspaper in an air-tight container, and put the chips on top. Store at room temperature.

I forgot which was son and which was husband. All the word play made me think Jack was a genius. I love kale cooked. I love any green cooked, except for spinach. Okay, I really enjoy it when I eat it cooked, but that spinach coming up is awful. (must be an allergy)

I love kale chips…try sprinkling a bit of nutritional yeast on them, tastes like Parmesan cheese. Also when I prepped my kale for smoothies, I accidentally put it in the freezer with the berries, I found it then crushes into tiny bits and takes less space, blends better and doesn’t get old and funky! Easy to sneak a few spoons full into soup and sauces too!

My family would say,”oh kale no!” if I even tried having these as a snack though I sneak nutritional yeast in almost every other snack (inspired by your pumpkin seed recipe) . On the nerf gun front our local Meijer put all their nerf stuff at 90% off and now I can’t walk into a room with getting hit about a jillion times … fun times.

I’ve been thinking about trying nutritional yeast for a while (which means it just never gets done), and I finally picked some up at Trader Joe’s, and thought, “now what? I have to actually find the recipes I thought I’d try with that.”

And then this recipe came along. I am not a fan of kale, but I have made kale chips. For me, they weren’t worth the time, but we don’t eat chip snacks often (popcorn even less often, which leaves me scratching my head over popcorn for dinner), so no loss there. I will actually try it again with your recipe, though, especially since I read the nutritional information on nutritional yeast, which turns out to be full of all the stuff I need more of!